The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy

The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy
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Download or read book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy written by Robert R. Newton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton shows that Ptolemy predominantly obtained the astronomical results described in his work The Almagest by computation, and not by the direct observations that Ptolemy described.


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